Class and Marriage

The reduction of romantic union to property transaction and lineage verification, exposing Victorian marriage as economic arrangement disguised as sentiment.

1 Book 19 min read

Summaries

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

Wilde, Oscar

Two bachelors invent fictional alter egos to escape social obligations, only to have their deceptions collide when both pursue women obsessed with the name Ernest—culminating in the absurd revelation that one suitor's fabricated identity was his true name all along.

Class and Marriage 19 min